Do you mean you have to pick specific ones or can you say "use it however" because in the second case most of the time it probably wouldn't change much (you basically only have to change your normal budget if the amount bookmarked only for a specific rubric is larger than you intended to s...

I know the historical parallel but mages are not literally planes, that a thing is meant to mirror something does not imply that everything automatically makes as much sense with the replacement (which has different traits than the original). The mages don't have just flight they also have significa...

http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-immigration-airlines-idUSL1N1FP02Q Feb 3 U.S. Customs & Border Protection has informed U.S. airlines that they can once again board travelers who had been barred by an executive order last week, after it was blocked nationwide on Friday by a federal judg...

Youjo Senki- One of the candidatens in epi 5 was a woman and she looked like the normal designs the male soldiers get instead of the designs of Tanja and her returned sidekick. (Though for Tanja herself it is kinda okay, her sidekick however…) Now the contrast is even weirder. The episode makes me w...

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-1427-are-still-the-richest-families-in-florence/ The richest families in Florence, Italy have had it good for a while—600 years to be precise. That’s according to a recent study by two Italian economists, Guglielmo Barone and Sauro Mocetti, ...

Oh yeah it makes sense to think about it and make something that is consistent but it is not necessarily something you want to explain explicitly. And if you want to do something that doesn't quite fit the simple model there are plenty ways to justify it by declaring it to be more complex. You can h...

Anyway one result (int the y>x>z case) is that if you isolated a subcommunity of F and V after one generation there would be no xx in the population and a high proportion of xz but that would quickly turn into 50/50 xz/zz. (Unless you start only with xx and zz then you only last one gen of course.) ...

While true it is not my favorite argument. If a parasite infected me and the parasite was a person and it happened through no fault on its own and it wasn't some mind control parasite or an always evil parasite, then I would try to remove it without killing it. I don't think you would be obligated t...

You are aware that for instance safety features are a thing? Rules built into the very design of the machine? Like microwaves not turning on when open for a trival one. They already do it is just limited to simple cases.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/24/journalists-charged-felonies-trump-inauguration-unrest Four more journalists have been charged with felonies after being arrested while covering the unrest around Donald Trump’s inauguration, meaning that at least six media workers are facing up to 10 y...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jinamoore/trump-just-slapped-an-anti-abortion-rule-on-foreign-aid President Donald Trump has reinstated the controversial “global gag rule” — a policy reversal that women’s rights and health advocates fear will bring a rise in unsafe abortions around the world. The Reagan-e...

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/21/media/sean-spicer-press-secretary-statement/index.html "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period," Spicer said, contradicting all available data. Aerial photos have indicated that former president Barack Obama's first inaugurati...

Define a few beer? Based on my memories of drinking beer for social reason at a liter or so it goes from disgusting to undrinkable for me which with the 0.33 bottles common here counts as three I guess. (I don't know whether it is like that for other people disliking beer, but for me the beer the un...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-18/the-empty-trump-administration Overall, out of 690 positions requiring Senate confirmation tracked by the Washington Post and Partnership for Public Service, Trump has come up with only 28 people so far. The Atlantic's Russell Berman had a good sto...

It is symmetric, any map where the isn't at least one field where it and its mirror have the same color can just be mirrored (and that applies horizontally and vertically). And if two halfs are mirrors of each other the result must be correct. It is rather easy to make a layout with many solutions b...

You know if Russia has anything on Trump but not really enough to blackmail him properly they could show it now and cause some chaos, because as answer to "they really had compromising videos!" the answer "But I am shameless and that getting out wouldn't have lowered the opinions abou...

Wait, is the purpose of citizen's wage to help people via replacing welfare, or is it to prepare for the upcoming automation apocalypse? Primarily the first I assume but I do think it would also be a more robust system if we reach a point where automation reaches a point people like me think it wil...

Define realistic. Based on some pseudo science to try justifying how it works (see some stuff with psychics)? Based on fictional physics but a logical well thought out system based on these physics? The users making use of real physical effects? The magic having physic based consequences (as in the ...

… I am pretty sure you understand that "x hasn't happened yet" is not actually an argument against "Because y will happen, x will happen in the future", right? The y here is "autonomous street vehicles" the x "significant reduction in number of people paid for driv...

The strongest declines in growth are presumably convergences with the US, where productivity growth started much earlier. US productivity growth seems to be slowly declining over the decades as well, though with a wavy pattern that makes hard conclusions difficult. And the last decade has been bad....

As gmalivuk pointed out, the same is true for all mathematics. Yet we do mathematics with infinite sets and prove results which turn out to apply to the real world! What is an induction proof if not an example of a supertask? If Wildcard's assertions were correct, then the results of mathematics wo...

After the initial experimenting phase and figuring out that it really happens again and again and isn't something I have to solve in a limited number of loops. Well I would probably alternate between massive amounts of media cosumption (between ebooks, anime and manga I will be occupied for quite a ...

You could release an awful lot of energy by throwing a person down a very deep well Hmm idea for a superpower, someone who can freely turn his potential energy from the earth gravity field into other energy but the effect of earths gravity on them gets weaker and if they use all their potential ene...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/22/506629695/trump-team-asks-state-dept-to-name-those-working-on-gender-equality Now trump wants a list of people working on gender equality, too. But nothing to worry about in this case of course it is because they want infos so they can improve the p...

Lets say we classed targets on some linear scale made up of effort and how much damage it will do and stuff (ignoring that that probably wouldn't work all that well.) Then security helps if you remove (or rather move lower by increasing effort) all targets on the highest level. An unprotected nuclea...

No, if I accepted that the task can be finished then it being empty follows from that imo which is why (along with other examples of infinity being weird) I am not quite convinced that stuff with reaching infinity (and not just going against infinity) is something that makes sense at all. But that i...

Your problem is your continued insistence that somehow balls like ω and ω+1 and 2ω just magically show up. All the balls we started with had natural numbers on them. So which natural number was originally on the now-lowest ball in the jug, which you claim is now numbered at least ω? When did it acq...